(July 23, 2014 at 1:38 pm)Losty Wrote: I'm just afraid to tell him that. I mean, I just don't want to lose that one last piece of family that I can look up to, even if it's just an illusion.Be ready for that possibility, painful as it may be. And always remember that in situations like this you are the VICTIM. You are not the one who would cut off communication over a difference in ideals or beliefs-- he is. Don't blame yourself for the fact that he might be willing to turn his back on you because you won't bow to his imaginary god. Looks to me like too many people in your life have been cruel to you. Don't be cruel to yourself.
As someone who allowed far too many people to take advantage of his good nature for far too long a time, I'm particular sensitive to the idea of people using other people this way. It's not YOU. It's THEM. Remember that.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
